Standardization

The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) is a leading consensus building organization within IEEE that nurtures, develops, and advances global technologies through facilitation of standards development and collaboration. The IEEE standards community is composed of technical experts and thought leaders from around the world from industry, academia, research organizations, governments, and civil society organizations.

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At IEEE, standards are developed through a consensus-building process. Working with a framework of open participation and diversity, IEEE’s unique, borderless standardization paradigm allows for a balance between competition and collaboration among a wide variety of stakeholders to reach consensus and create standards that drive innovation and growth.

IEEE standards developed under these principles, aligned with the 6 related WTO principles (transparency, openness, impartiality and consensus, effectiveness and relevance, coherence, development dimension), help ensure that markets remain open, allowing consumers to have choices and allowing successful new market entries. Technical standards provide people and organizations with a basis for mutual understanding and are instruments to facilitate communication, measurement, commerce, and manufacturing. They help ensure safety and reliability; enable innovation, and open new market opportunities to their users by allowing interoperability of products, services, and processes; and they create ecosystems that promote economies of scale and healthy competition.